Recently, the Australian Parliamentary Budget Office released two proposals on cannabis legalization. This was done to examine what legalization would look like at the request of Sen. David Shoebridge (described on his Twitter page as “the devil’s lettuce daddy of Australia”) and the Australian Greens Party (also referred to

“Do not go there!” Valentina, a 27-year-old designer living in Medellín, yelled when I told her that I planned on visiting the Casa Museo Pablo Escobar, a museum dedicated to the Colombian drug lord.  A quick Google search made me change my mind. The entrance fee to the museum is

With the abundance of marijuana and cash, criminals can easily fall prey to the Caribbean's cannabis-only market. On Friday, January 27, five attempted armed robbers tried to enter the Vermont town (not to confuse with the U.S. government) located in the Caribbean island of St. Vincent and the Grenadines.

Virginia Sen. Ghazala Hashmi’s bill, Senate Bill 932, recently passed in the Senate Education and Health Subcommittee on Jan. 25. Hashmi discussed the details of the bill with the subcommittee, such as how many psilocybin legislations are currently being presented across the country and why it is important to

In Indiana, a Republican legislator is backing two bills to legalize marijuana. GOP state Sen. Jon Ford “recently signed on to support two bills this legislative session related to cannabis and its possible future use in the state,” according to local news station WTWO/WAWV, with the legislator saying “he wants

Weed is for sale in one of the largest cities in Switzerland—for a select few, anyway. On Monday, the country launched the pilot cannabis program. This will allow a select few hundred participants to buy marijuana recreationally in various pharmacies around Basel. Swiss officials last year gave the go-ahead for the

Argentina officially launched a new government agency on Wednesday as part of an effort to bolster the country’s medical marijuana and hemp industry.  Reuters reports that the agency, known as the Regulatory Agency for the Hemp and Medicinal Cannabis Industry, or ARICCAME, represents “the first working group of a new

Ohio lawmaker has proposed a bill to help pot users avoid costly impaired driving charges.  News 5 Cleveland reports that the legislation, introduced by a Republican state senator, “would change the standards of the Operating a Vehicle Under the Influence (OVI) law,” and “help update Ohio laws due to the

Last Thursday, Greece made history by inaugurating the first medical marijuana plant. The following is an extract from the Greek ReporterThe investment by Tikun Europe (a subsidiary of Tikun Olam, an Israeli-based company that produces medical marijuana) was able to back the opening of the Corinth plant. Adonis Georgiadis, Greece’s minister

Hong Kong has banned CBD, categorizing it as a hazardous drug, in a strikingly different way than the U.S.A., and others around the world. It will begin on Wednesday. Time reports that beginning on Wednesday, harsh penalties and huge fines—typically associated with hard narcotics—will be applied to people in Hong